From The New American
By Bob Adelmann
''Private congressional conversations about how to keep the country from racing off the fiscal cliff in January are already taking place
in Washington, but few are willing to give many details. With the
promise of anonymity, congressional staffers from both sides of the
aisle are working feverishly to come up with solutions to the onrushing
fiscal train wreck.
Investigator Richard Rubin, writing for Bloomberg, said the
Republicans are building a “toolbox” of options — including raising
taxes — that could be used during the lame duck session following
Election Day. Which tools will be used depends on how the elections turn
out. Likewise, Democrat staffers are developing their game plans as
well, but tax cuts are not in their “toolbox” according to unnamed
parties familiar with the discussions.
Which tools each side will be using depends upon if the Democrats
retain control of the Senate and the White House, but fail to gain
control of the House. If Romney wins, and the Senate goes Republican,
then certain tools in the Republican toolbox will never see the light of
day, including tax increases and cuts in military spending.''
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